Professor Danziger served UCI as Dean of the Division of Undergraduate Education from 1995-1999 and has also been Chair of the Irvine Division of the Academic Senate, Associate Dean of the School of Social Sciences, and Chair of the Department of Political Science. Professor Danziger's general research interests are in the social and political impacts of information and communication technologies (ICTs), information use in the political process, local politics, public resource allocation, and British politics. His primary research focus has been in the area of technology and politics, especially on the uses, impacts, and regulation of information and communications technologies. He was, from 2002-2012, Principal Investigator on a $2.8 million NSF grant, the POINT Project (People, Organizations and Information Technology). Professor Danziger has been Associate Director of the interdisciplinary CRITO (Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations) research group at Irvine, internationally recognized as one of the top five centers in the world for the social scientific study of high technologies. In 1998, the group was designated as an NSF Industry-University Cooperative Center. Graduate study with this group entailed study with faculty in the social sciences, management sciences, and computer science as well as participation in major national and international research projects. He has also analyzed alternative conceptual and empirical models of resource allocation systems and has written on the causes and impacts of fiscal constraints on local political systems. Professor Danziger's undergraduate courses include the introduction to political science, American metropolitan politics, urban policy analysis, comparative politics, and technology and society. His graduate courses are related to technology and politics, policy analysis, and organizational theory. He also served as Faculty Director of UCI's Capital Internship Programs (Washington, DC and Sacramento) for fourteen years. He has also been a faculty member on five Semester at Sea voyages, including two that circumnavigated the globe, and one that focused on countries on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

Publications

Understanding the Political World, Twelfth edition. Pearson, 2016.

People and Computers: Impacts of Computing on End Users in Organizations, (coauthored). Columbia University Press, 1986.

Computers and Politics: High Technology in American Local Government. (coauthored). Columbia University Press, 1982.

The Impacts of Information Technology on Public Administration: An Analysis of Empirical Research from "The Golden Age of Transformation”. (coauthored) International Journal of Public Administration 25: 5 (2002): 591-627.

Grants

2002-2012 Principal Investigator, Division of Information Technology Research of the National Science Foundation, The Impacts of IT on Individuals and Their Organizations: Conditions of Change and Transformation, [NSF ITR/PE 0121232], $2.8 million.